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(Day 2) Year 3 (5917 Magoma Era or 2020 CE) 3 Day New Year-Solstice Celebration

Mago Academy is happy to announce the 3 Day New Year/Solstice Celebration for Year 3 (5917 Magoma Era or 2020 CE)! (December 18 is the New Year and December 22 is the Solstice in the 13 Month Magoist Calendar). Check out the Magoist Calendar here.

Mother Time Restored in Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar.

Theme Whale Riding Journey to the Home/Womb of Mago, the Creatrix

 


Day 2 (Dec. 21 Saturday): Manifestations of Magoist Cetaceanism

My (re-)search on Cetaceanism was promoted in the wake of writing about the Korean temple bell. I first had thought that the Sillan temple bell was cast in the form of an impregnated female body (see my essays below) alone. Foremost, the symbolism of nine-numerology with regard to the female biology was fully visible and tangible in the Nine Nipples of the bell’s body, for example. Note that the Magoist Genealogy comprises the Mago Triad and their eight daughters known as Gurang (Nine Maidens) in folk traditions. The Sillan temple bell is no mere acoustic cultural invention but a sacred sonic device that engenders the cosmogonic power of all beings who hear. The sound emitted from inside the bell’s belly is evocative of the sound that comes from Mago, the Cosmic Womb. It is the Female/Mother/Womb bell, which reenacts the Magoist Cosmogony, the metamorphic power of all beings awakened by the movement of Sonic Numerology (see the message of Day 1). While the above was all corect, there was more to be revealed.

Later I learned the Korean temple bell has a wooden mallet in the shape of a whale. A whale? Why on earth does the bell’s mallet come in the shape of a whale? What does it mean the striking of the whale mallet? Why a whale? These startling questions set me on the task of seeking answers. With regards to the whale and the Korean temple bell, as I researched, sources pointed to the Chinese mythopoeia of Pulao (Poroe in Korean). It is said that the dragon head of the temple bell depicts Pulao, one of the nine sons of the dragon king, who cries out at the sight of a whale in the sea. While this seemed the only source available, the stylized myth of Pulao did not seem original or etymological per se. It proves to be a stopgap to the mind who sought some answers like myself among the Chinese. It is intriguing, nonetheless, as it involves the theme of nine-numerology.

A further research brought that the Korean temple bell is called its cetacean names, the Whale Bell, the Splendid Whale, and the like. Once my consciousness grew to focus on whales in traditional Korea as a whole, a much larger corpus of cetacean customs (linguistics, petroglyphs, myths, and more) emerged to the horizon. Exhilarating it was, I was on the right track of the course! Hitherto hidden layers of esoteric knowing on Magoist Cetaceanism began to reveal. A reservoir of the deep knowing was opening in me. A continued search included a debate over the sound tube cast in conjunction with the dragon in the bell head (see the image of the sound tube). A group of Korean scholars asserts that the sound tube, exclusively found in Korean temple bells in comparison with Chinese and Japanese bells, is cast after the Pacifying Flute that Defeats All (Manpasikjeok), hereafter the pacifying flute. This insight is the linchpin that connects the whale mallet, the bell’s cetacean names, and the dragon in the myth of the pacifying flute within the context of ancient Sillan Magoism.

Together with other evidence, the myth of the pacifying flute sheds light on crucial revelations to Magoist Cetaceanism, the Sillan Magoist Cetacean practices in particular. Among them the most compelling are: Firstly, the whale is referred to as a moving mountain in the sea in Korean myths. Secondly, the dragon, an imaginative animal, represent whales, the divine ruler of the sea. Lastly, the pacifying flute was made with the tusk of a narwhal.   

Magoist Cetaceanism champions an ancient gynocentric consciousness in which the maternal or the female and the cetacean are united. The very bond between women and a non-human species is the hallmark of a gynocentric worldview, which is metamorphic. Put differently, Magoist Cetaceanism restored today proffers an antidote to the solipsistic and hierarchical patriarchal worldview. Both “mothers” and “whales” are categorically analogical and expansive in meaning. That is, mothers represent humanity, whereas whales speak for non-human species. In fact, the dragon, an imaginative animal symbol for cetaceans, represents the non-human species.

Magoist Cetaceanism comes as an otherworldly topic to moderns. Moderns are insulated from the original meaning of totemism as a whole. Generally perceived as a primitive practice confined to some indigenous peoples, totemism remains marginalized in modern discourse. Fundamentally, difficulty lies in the observer who sees a totem as a single independent object. This is only corollary when everything is seen as a single isolated entity as is in the patriarchal worldview. All beings are lined up linearly for their place in a hierarchical order. The observer’s superior and independent position over the totem hinders him/her from seeing the encompassing nature of a totem.

 

(Bell Essay 5) The Ancient Korean Bell and Magoism by Helen Hwang

 

(Bell Essay 9) The Magoist Whale Bell: Decoding the Cetacean Code of Korean Temple Bells by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.

 

(Essay 1) Magoist Cetaceanism and the Myth of the Pacifying Flute (Manpasikjeok) by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.

 

(Poetry) Whales and the Cosmos by Harriet Ann Ellenberger

 

Read (Day 1) Year 3 (5917 Magoma Era or 2020 CE) 3 Day New Year-Solstice Celebration  

 

Mago Academy is happy to announce the 3 Day New Year/Solstice Celebration for Year 3 (5917 Magoma Era or 2020 CE)! (December 18 is the New Year and December 22 is the Solstice in the 13 Month Magoist Calendar). Check out the Magoist Calendar here.

Mother Time Restored in Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar.

Theme Whale Riding Journey to the Home/Womb of Mago, the Creatrix

When Dec. 20, 21, and 22 (Time and date may vary according to your local time) with Dec. 17, 2019 for Virtual Midnight Vigil.

Why these 3 Days? We begin a new tradition according to the 13 Month Magoist Calendar. Tune in with Mother Time in Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar (Book B). Dec. 18 is the New Year according to the 13 Month Magoist Calendar and Dec. 22 is Winter Solstice. New Year on the new moon before the December Solstice.

Venue

The Nine Mago Festivals Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/353059021788526/

Programs

 

Virtual Midnight Vigil (Dec. 17, 2019) to New Year, Year 3 (5917 Magoma Era)

 

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